Shamrock and Gold Coin Cookies

You'll luck out making these charming St. Patrick's Day cookies because all the ingredients are pantry staples. Let your little lepricons help decorate with green icing or sprinkles.

Ingredients

2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature

2/3 cup sugar

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups all-purpose flour

Fine green sugar sprinkles

Yellow-gold coarse sugar

Nutritional Information

Calories 86

Fat 5g

Satfat 3g

Protein 1g

Carbohydrate 9g

Fiber 0g

Cholesterol 14mg

Sodium 33mg

Calories 86

Fat 5g

Satfat 3g

Protein 1g

Carbohydrate 9g

Fiber 0g

Cholesterol 14mg

Sodium 33mg

How to Make It

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325°. Combine butter, sugar, vanilla and salt, and beat with electric mixer on medium until blended. Add flour; mix on low until incorporated. Shape dough into a disk and wrap in wax paper. Chill for 2 hours.

Step 2

Soften dough at room temperature. Place oven racks in upper and lower thirds of oven.

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Ratings & Reviews

dummees's Review

It's a pretty basic shortbread, not fantastic but certainly not bad. A bit plain and oily when you first take them out of the oven, but decent crumb. Good with coffee. I just halved the recipe and made circles, since I wasn't looking for much besides a basic recipe. So this delivered.

SuzieQ86's Review

btrswtbkr's Review

Made 19 shamrock cookies, no gold coins.
Chilled 30 minutes, halved dough, rolled and cut out cookies, chill again for at least 10 minutes on cookie sheet.( To prevent spreading ) Sprinkled on sugar before baking and baked only 10 minutes, just till you see a little golden on edges. Used butter flavored vanilla, so as too not darken the cookie with dark vanilla. Flavor was so Yummy, good crumb. A keeper recipe!